Friday, December 14, 2012

I don't think anyone really believes this but it's something we all have thought about. I'm a guy who has always been too curious for some. "Chicken for breakfast? We eat eggs and cereal for Breakfast? Why? We work 40 hours a week and have cake and sing on a co-workers birthday? Why? Put ice cream in a sandwich and fry it then cut up like Sushi Roll? Are you crazy?Everyone saw the sky fall, but Newton asked why? Do your homework and you'll learn that every innovation that has pushed the world forward resulted from someone asking why?So it's my belief that we know very little about ourselves and the universe. As a kid I used to hand shovel our families driveway and made money shoveling neighbors driveways, the elderly ones that had no kids to do it for them. We used to get a lot of snow and sometimes as I'd finish the street plow would come by and fill the whole driveway back up. One day I notice my neighbor and classmate Will Fox hasn't come out to start shoveling. The snow was piling up and freezing making it harder task for Will every moment he waited. All of a sudden I hear a loud noise and the Fox's gardener shows up with a plow attached to the front of his summer lawn care truck. With a few hydraulic noises and some backing up and forward and up, their driveway was clean to the bone all in a matter of minutes. What was taking me a half day took 15 minutes. Of course the city had plows on their garbage trucks. But everyone assumed that's only something the City does- private homes, the kids shovel. Until one guy asked why? Until one landscaper who sat the winters out waiting for a small growing season to make his year's pay, looked closer at the garbage truck and saw it was a plow attached with a harness in a way that could be done on any truck. He asked why can't I put a plow on my truck and since I already have customers from the summer, just offer them an annual contract that includes plowing? But as long as you don't know of a new and better way of doing something, you accept status quo. Another example is when I fly into the Hampton's on summer vacation and sit in bumper to bumper traffic for three hours until one day my host picks me up at the airport, and as we approach the pile up he makes an abrupt right which takes him onto a series of service and back roads that get us to the destination in 30 minutes. Most of us get on the service road by our exit and see the service road as a short on ramp to the highway. How many have looked at it and said, it runs the whole length of the highway. If you don't get on and off just to access the Freeway, it will take you there?Imagine one day you are in a rush and depressed at thought of all the traffic from point a to b. Then comes a guy from a more advanced place and shows you if you put your right hand straight up with finger pointing to the Sun then tap three times on your ass, you'll begin to fly.Bottom line is I have no idea whether the world will end in seven days but I'd not see it as an end, I'd ask what if I run into the man who can show me how to fly in seven days?I'm the kind of guy who loves possibility thinking. I am drawn to conspiracy theories and alternate points of view which the web puts within easy reach. From what I see there's mounds of convincing evidence that we might be on the verge of new experiences. The storms. The floods. The solar alignments. The fingers on the nuke trigger. The UFO activity around Nuclear sites as now being openly discussed by heads of state. Then there is the bible, or many different bibles all with their own end of days scenario. The Hopi Indians. I like to stir the pot. Test the waters. So I've been putting some of this out there right here and also on social media.I was beginning to believe it myself. So I ran a trial balloon past the smartest guy I know. And that reassures me that the world is not about to end any time soon.But I am also a student of numerology and can show you that there are no coincidences about world events.Take this list of events that happened on 12/21 over time. Loaded with the same activities happening now: Space, inventions of new media, terrorist attacks, Philippines storms, Japan quakes, big lotto prize, first health insurance plan, picketing and labor disputes and the real day the pilgrims arrived.Cue Twilight Zone music. Thanks for listening an have a GREAT weekend.